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Government attempts to weaken cryptography to allow general surveillance are not new: they date back at least to the 1993 Clipper chip<\/a>. Similarly, claims that children will be harmed by strong cryptography also go back many years. When Apple strengthened encryption on its phone in 2014, the chief of detectives for Chicago\u2019s police department said: \u201cApple will become the phone of choice for the pedophile.<\/a>\u201d Nonetheless, even against that background of constant attacks<\/a>, the UK government\u2019s attempt to use moral and emotional blackmail to weaken end-to-end (e2e) encryption is spectacular in its wrongheadedness.<\/p>\n

As part of its #NoPlaceToHide campaign, it has launched a new site<\/a>. Although not mentioned by name, the central concern is over Facebook\u2019s plans to add e2e encryption to Messenger and Instagram<\/a>, something that the UK\u2019s Home Secretary described as \u201cnot acceptable<\/a>\u201c. Partly as result of UK government pressure, Facebook\u2019s plans are currently on hold until 2023<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The overall message of the #NoPlaceToHide site is: \u201cWe\u2019re telling social media platforms: don\u2019t give child sex abusers a place to hide.\u201d Looking at the logos on the home page, you might think that this campaign is an initiative from well-known UK organizations in this space. But right at the bottom of the page, in suitably small print, we read: \u201cThe campaign is funded by the UK Government and has been developed by a steering group of child safety organisations with support from M&C Saatchi. The steering group has not been paid to take part.\u201d<\/p>\n

An article on Rolling Stone revealed that the UK government is spending half a million pounds \u2014 around $650,000 \u2014 on an advertising campaign scaremongering about the \u201cdangers\u201d of e2e communications<\/a>. Those crafting the campaign noted that most of the public have never heard of e2e encryption, which means \u201cpeople can be easily swayed\u201d on the issue. The following \u201cPR stunt\u201d is a sample of how the UK government intends to sway them:<\/p>\n

\u201cA glass box is installed in a public space,\u201d the presentation notes. \u201cInside the box, there are two actors; one child and one adult. Both strangers. The child sits playing on their smart phone. At the other end of the box, we see an adult sat on a chair also on their phone, typing away.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe adult occasionally looks over at the child, knowingly. Intermittently through the day, the \u2018privacy glass\u2019 will turn on and the previously transparent glass box will become opaque. Passers by won\u2019t be able to see what\u2019s happening inside. In other words, we create a sense of unease by hiding what the child and adult are doing online when their interaction can\u2019t be seen.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Paul Bernal, Professor of Information Technology Law at UEA Law School, has written an explanation of why children need both encryption and anonymity<\/a><\/p>\n

The reason that kids need anonymity and encryption is a fundamental one. It\u2019s because they need privacy, and in the current state of the internet anonymity and encryption are key protectors of privacy. More fundamentally than that, we need to remember that everyone needs privacy. This is especially true for children \u2014 because privacy is about power. We need privacy from those who have power over us \u2014 an employee needs privacy from their employer, a citizen from their government, everyone needs privacy from criminals, terrorists and so forth. For children this is especially intense, because so many kinds of people have power over children. By their nature, they\u2019re more vulnerable \u2014 which is why we have the instinct to wish to protect them. We need to understand, though, what that protection could and should really mean.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Embarrassingly for the UK government, its own privacy expert, the Information Commissioner\u2019s Office, agrees with Bernal, writing that \u201cE2EE serves an important role both in safeguarding our privacy and online safety. It strengthens children\u2019s online safety by not allowing criminals and abusers to send them harmful content or access their pictures or location.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jim Killock, Executive Director from Open Rights Group, believes the scaremongering campaign aims to soften up public opinion prior to amendments to the UK\u2019s Online Safety Bill<\/a> that would allow the government to install backdoors in e2e encrypted messaging apps<\/a>. He\u2019s probably right, even though the #NoPlaceToHide says: \u201cWe are not opposed to end-to-end encryption, as long as it is implemented in a way that does not put children at risk.\u201d This is the same old demand for digital magic beans<\/a> that will somehow preserve full-strength e2e encryption, but also allow the authorities to access what is encrypted. In fact, this call is even worse than previous ones, because it phrased in a way to make the demand sound reasonable, and any refusal to comply sound unreasonable.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the only dubious aspect of the new site. Twice we are told \u201can estimated 14 million reports of suspected child sexual abuse online could be lost each year\u201d if e2e encryption is brought in. But the security expert Alec Muffett<\/a> has dug a little deeper, and found a number of serious problems with the claim<\/a>. First, 14 million seems to be a global figure, not a purely UK one. Secondly, many reports are duplicates; the true figure of new and malicious abuse is probably around 350,000, maybe as few as 1900, according to Muffett. Too many, to be sure, but a rather different situation from the one portrayed by the UK government. Moreover, even with strong e2e encryption in place, there are various workarounds<\/a> that can be used to obtain information needed by law enforcement. Fortunately, on the Internet, there is #NoPlaceToHide for blatantly misleading, manipulative campaigns which can be investigated and exposed by people working from the facts, not just playing on understandably strong emotions.<\/p>\n

Featured image by Mikhail Vasilyev<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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His book, \"Rebel Code,\" is the first and only detailed history of the rise of open source, while his subsequent work, \"The Digital Code of Life,\" explores bioinformatics - the intersection of computing with genomics.","sameAs":["http:\/\/opendotdotdot.blogspot.com\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/glynmoody\/","https:\/\/x.com\/http:\/\/twitter.com\/glynmoody"],"url":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/author\/glynmoody\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20012"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28820,"href":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20012\/revisions\/28820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}